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Tag Archives: assurance
Justifying Justification by Faith
Let’s assume that integrating justification by faith into a comprehensive understanding of salvation would be a constructive and positive thing for Eastern theology to do. I can think of several reasons why: Justification is an important theme in the New … Continue reading
Posted in Grace, Justification & Theosis
Tagged assurance, atonement, Augsburg Confession, Eastern Orthodoxy, justification by faith, penal substitution, Reformation, Westminster Confession
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Gospel, Mortal Sin, and the Search for Assurance
The problem with mortal sin is that it’s so damned mortal. It scares me—as it rightly should. Mortal sin is nothing less than a state of spiritual death and impenitence. I know that the reason I was initially drawn to … Continue reading
Posted in Grace, Justification & Theosis, Preaching
Tagged assurance, faith, gospel, J. I. Packer, John Calvin, justification by faith, Martin Luther, mortal sin
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Vicarious Faith, Tom Torrance, and a Few Memories
It’s not often these days that Eclectic Orthodoxy gets noticed, but over at Reformissio, Jonathan Kleis mentioned me in his recent article “Athanasius, T. F. Torrance and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ,” and I would be remiss if I did not … Continue reading
Posted in T. F. Torrance
Tagged assurance, Athanasius, church fathers, faith, Jesus Christ, justification, salvation, Thomas Torrance, vicarious humanity
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Mortal Sin, Reflective Faith, and the Search for Assurance
The problem with mortal sin is that it’s so damned mortal. It scares me—as it rightly should. Mortal sin is nothing less than a state of spiritual death and impenitence. I know that the reason I was drawn to Martin … Continue reading
Posted in Grace, Justification & Theosis, Preaching
Tagged assurance, election, faith, J. I. Packer, John Owen, limited atonement, mortal sin, Phillip Cary, predestination
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Clinging to Externals: Weak Faith and the Power of the Sacraments
by Phillip Cary, Ph.D. Behind the debates about the objectivity of Christ’s presence in the Reformed view of the supper are crucial pastoral questions about the nature of faith, and I think it will bring clarity to the debate if … Continue reading
Posted in Sacraments
Tagged assurance, Calvin, faith, Martin Luther, Phillip Cary, predestination, Puritanism, sacraments, unconditional promise
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Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Assurance of Faith
by Brother Ignatius Schweitzer, O.P. Among the topics addressed by the Lutheran Catholic Accord document, “Joint Declaration on Justification,” is section 4.6 on “Assurance of Salvation.” Assurance of salvation normally denotes two things: first, a certainty that at the present … Continue reading
Oecumenical Grace: The Protestant Gospel
Compared to the previous chapters in The Theology of Grace and the Oecumenical Movement, the chapter devoted to the Protestant understanding of grace is too brief and to my mind unsatisfactory. In the ecumenical dialogue from which this book arose, … Continue reading
Ruminating Romans: N. T. Wright and Justification by Works
But now, quite apart from the law (though the law and the prophets bore witness to it), God’s covenant justice has been displayed. God’s covenant justice comes into operation through the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah, for the benefit of … Continue reading
Posted in Apostle Paul
Tagged assurance, justification, justification by works, merit, N. T. Wright, Romans
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